[quote]spar4tee wrote:
Have you been eating?[/quote]
Not consistently. I always come up with some BS excuse for why I can’t eat much. I know what I have to do, I just have to man up and do it.
I’ll be home in a few weeks where I can spread my food out throughout the day instead of on a meal plan. I can easily get well over maintenance like that which should get me out of this rut, progressing fast again and able to handle volume.
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you can’t just sit there and eat for like an hour or two? and get a really big meal in?
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
Have you been eating?[/quote]
Not consistently. I always come up with some BS excuse for why I can’t eat much. I know what I have to do, I just have to man up and do it.
I’ll be home in a few weeks where I can spread my food out throughout the day instead of on a meal plan. I can easily get well over maintenance like that which should get me out of this rut, progressing fast again and able to handle volume.
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you can’t just sit there and eat for like an hour or two? and get a really big meal in?[/quote]
Like I said, I have to man up.
I’ve been doing well recently, but the consistency is the killer.
nothing of much note has happened, I switched pushdown handles from the rope to the straight bar thing. i don’t exactly need to isolate the lateral head or medial head or whatever the hell it is…
working weight was 120 for those.
Just barely missed the sixth rep at 155 on close grip bench. I felt like I was in an actual groove on these, the weight just bounced up in an arc from my ribs, like it was in a curved smith machine.
also tried some reverse grip OHP just for fun after my main sets. Its sticking point is lower than my OHP sticking point so it was fun to have an easy lockout, haha.
I realized a few days ago that I used the wrong weight on deadlifts last week and that I actually progressed a fair amount on them from the week before. Hopefully we’ll see more of that tomorrow.
May 9, I’m home - I can do all the O-lifts, deadlifts, and throws I want without having to check for clueless douchebags walking over my bar, use all the chalk I want, go barefoot if I feel like it, eat as often as I need, sleep as long as I need, train as often as I want, call the bar a motherfucker as loudly as I want, and hog the rack for as many hours as I wish.
deadlift is at 20 or more short rest singles at 295. I forgot to count exactly how many, stupidly. It’s enough to move on up next week though.
good morning is at 165
shrugs at 315 were a little more than I was able to squeeze at the top, 275 is feeling good though.
Plus more that isn’t worth writing considering I have a psych exam at 10 tomorrow morning. Why the hell don’t the professors stick to the exam schedule?? trying to squeeze exams into the last few days of classes just means i don’t have as long to study for them. rrgghgh
Squats: 275 doubles. Rests got a little longer than I wanted and I only got 10 sets. So I’ll stay here next time.
Good mornings - 135 for a bunch and then 3 sets at 175. I’m getting used to the movement, don’t have to fight as much against the tendency to squat it.
weighted pullups - a few triples at 45, then BW high reps. Didn’t push it too far this time for my shoulders. They handled it very well though so somethings working
hand walkouts and hold (ab wheel rollouts, but walking my hands out on the ground instead of using the wheel, cause I care more about the hold at the end than the rolling)
OHP - 15 short rest doubles at 115. Perfect. Time to move up.
Close grip - top set was 165 for 4 reps, I was so close on the 5th but I let it get too far over my face. Next time.
Pushdowns - top set was the stack. Tried some light reverse grip pushdowns right after. Instant pump.
I fucked my spine over a little on the last snatch of saturday. I was in a huge hurry and let myself go soft under it, which hyperextended my lumbar in short order. (and made me miss a PR too)
SO, monday:
Was planning to do a bunch of short rest DL doubles at 295. The first one felt pretty fast, but I could feel my spine in a nasty way. So I switched to semi-sumo stance and did about 5 more doubles.
I’m driving home tomorrow. I’m not sure how long this’ll take to recover, but I do know that driving certainly won’t help it. I may have to use high bar squats and sumo deadlifts for a bit.
